Chapter 30: The New Year
Chu Dagen came to the door to make trouble twice, and Chu Sheng was obviously angry when he mentioned Chu Dagen, Lin Xi looked at it in his eyes, afraid that this child would make trouble, and Lin Xi was not at ease. Chu Sheng looked at Lin Xi's slightly uneasy expression, and promised Lin Xi that he would not do anything stupid.
That being said, but on the night of Chu Dagen's wedding, the Chu family's firewood stacks burned inexplicably, and the weather has been dry in the past few days, and the entire two firewood stacks have burned out. The firewood of the Chu family is piled together, and if it is burned like this, it will be a problem to burn and heat this winter. Jin Cui was so angry that he stood at the door and cried, Chu Dagen was also depressed, and a good cave room was forcibly stirred. Early in the morning, Chu Sheng stood at the gate of the courtyard, and saw wisps of black smoke coming out of the Chu family from a distance, and a sneer appeared on his face.
The house was cleaned, the Spring Festival couplets were pasted, and the New Year arrived. On Chinese New Year's Eve, Lin Xi and Chu Sheng were in front of a table full of dishes, including fish and meat, fried and stir-fried, for Lin Xi, this was her first Spring Festival here, and for Chu Sheng, this was his first family reunion festival. Lin Xi prepared a small red envelope for Chu Sheng, and specially reminded him to remember to press the red envelope under the pillow. Chu Sheng received the red envelope for the first time, and his little face was red with excitement. There were two yuan in the red envelope, and his sister said that he would buy a book for him in the future, so Chu Sheng was reluctant, and he had to hide this red envelope.
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, the children in the village were also cleaned up, standing at the gate of the courtyard and saying auspicious words. Lin Xi took out melon seeds and peanuts, and every child who came to the door to pay New Year's greetings could go back with a bag, and the happy appearance of the children also infected Lin Xi, and his mood was a little better. When Bao'er appeared at the door, Lin Xi also grabbed a handful of peanuts for him, Bao'er pushed the little girl on the side, the little girl said a lucky word timidly, Lin Xi didn't hear what she said, looked at her with several patches of clothes, this dress is obviously changed from an adult's clothes, and the child is also strangely pitiful, and his hands are naturally generous, and he filled the girl's small clothes pocket before letting her leave. Before she could take two steps, Bao'er reached out and grabbed the melon seeds in the little girl's pocket and stuffed them into her pocket. The little girl dared to be angry but did not speak, and lowered her head and did not speak. Lin Xi looked at the back of the two of them leaving and sighed silently.
When Tang Shu and Tang Xiaomei came over, Lin Xi took out bean paste rolls and sesame cakes, these two children were closer to themselves, so they naturally wanted to come up with better things to entertain them. The eyes of the two children lit up, Tang Xiaomei still wanted to shirk it, Tang Shu grabbed a bean paste roll and stuffed it into his mouth, the bean paste was sweet, the glutinous rice was soft and glutinous, Tang Shu finished eating it in two bites, with an unfinished expression, Lin Xi looked interesting, and handed him another one. Tang Shu looked at Lin Xi and praised Lin Xi vigorously: "Sister Lin is so good, this bean paste roll is so delicious, I haven't eaten such a delicious dim sum." Lin Xi was overjoyed by the praise, and took a sesame cake and stuffed it to him. Tang Shu's kind words don't want money to come out: "Thank you, sister." Sister, you're really capable! My mom won't do this, I'll ask her to come and talk to you about a few tricks, and you'll have to teach her well. Sister Lin, when spring blooms, I will pick toons for you to eat, there is a toon tree in my yard, and I will pinch the most tender one for you. Lin Xi was amused and giggled, Chu Sheng looked at Tang Shu's eyes unkindly, lowered his voice and said, "Have you eaten enough?" The implication is that you can leave when you are full. Tang Shu didn't understand, and replied unceremoniously: "No, how can I eat enough with this little snack? After speaking, he touched his stomach. Chu Sheng was about to be angry with him, is this person really stupid or pretending to be stupid?
Lin Xi took a paper bag, wrapped a few bean paste rolls and sesame cakes and handed it to Tang Xiaomei, asking her to take it back and share it with her brother. Tang Xiaomei's face turned red, this younger brother was too embarrassed, and without waiting for Tang Shu to continue talking, Tang Xiaomei and Lin Xi thanked each other, and pulled their younger brother away as if they were running away.
Liu Chunyan saw the paper package in Tang Xiaomei's hand, and asked casually, Tang Xiaomei is an honest child, so she told her brother about her brother's performance in Lin Xi, and Liu Chunyan was embarrassed to hear it, how did she raise such an unlucky child. If it weren't for the Chinese New Year, Liu Chunyan would have let Tang Shu taste the taste of a broom.
Tang Jianguo looked at this bag of dim sum, and also felt uncomfortable, although he didn't deliberately inquire, but he also knew that Lin Xi's conditions were good, at least in terms of food, it was better than ordinary people in the village. Generally, children go to the New Year to give a candy bar is generous, if these snacks are bought, not to mention the cost, but also a lot of food stamps. Tang Jianguo thought about it for a while, and had an idea in his heart, alas! The stinky boy is not angry, and this favor has to be repaid by himself.
Tang Shu was not beaten, but he was also reprimanded, and muttered on the side: "That is, Sister Lin is generous and gives a lot, you see that I ran around, and my pockets were not full." The most angry is that Wang Zhiqing, so he gave us a peanut. Tang Jianguo angrily trained his son: "Such a big person, you still have to be hungry for snacks, can you have a little talent?"
Saying this, I feel a little uncomfortable in my heart, no matter how poor the people in the village are, they will prepare a little bit when they meet the New Year's children begging for snacks, this Wang Zhiqing can't be a man!
The same feeling as him is Fang Chuanzhi. Fang Chuanzhi looked at the peanuts that Wang Xiaozhen gave to the children, one for each person, and some children who were not very sensible wanted to ask Wang Xiaozhen for a few more, Wang Xiaozhen refused without hesitation, and several children left aggrieved. Fang Chuanzhi sighed in his heart, he knew Wang Xiaozhen's temper, this girl was a cautious person. She doesn't want to think about it, the child's mouth is fast, and as soon as it spreads out, your reputation for being stingy will fall. Sure enough, within a few hours, the story of a peanut spread in the village.
When it was time for dinner, there were no children running here anymore. Chu Sheng looked at the empty plates, the bean paste rolls and sesame cakes were gone, and his heart was awkward again. Lin Xi didn't expect so many children to come, especially a few children who came to Lin Xi to read books, Lin Xi also liked them, thinking that they usually helped with their work, Lin Xi gave them snacks, and as a result, these snacks were all distributed. At this time, Chu Sheng seemed to be a little pitiful who had been wronged and didn't dare to squeak, Lin Xi was a little apologetic, and coaxed Chu Sheng: "I didn't estimate it this time, I'll make a little more in a while to ensure that you can eat it every day." Chu Sheng said with a little grievance: "Forget it, sister, I don't really want to eat either." Don't be busy. When Lin Xi heard this, he felt even more wronged by Chu Sheng, and hurriedly coaxed him: "It's okay, when I'm empty, find another kind of dim sum and make it for you to eat alone, okay?" Chu Sheng suddenly became energetic, and asked expectantly: "What kind of dim sum?" Lin Xi looked at his expectant appearance, and said in his heart, let's do it now, he is not at ease.
There are still leftovers at home, and it is enough for the two of them to eat without cooking today. Lin Xi decided to make some snacks in the evening.
In the kitchen, Chu Sheng was in charge of lighting the fire, and Lin Xi took out the flour and the black cake that had been prepared to wrap the rice balls. Add water to the flour and mix well, make it into a mixture, then drive it into a dough, wrap it with a filling, pinch it round and flatten it, cut it into petals with a knife, turn it over and shape it, and then wait for it to ferment and then steam it in a pot. Twenty minutes later, the plum cake was baked. Seeing the steaming plum blossom cake, Chu Sheng's face bloomed with a smile again. Lin Xi couldn't help but sigh, he was a child at the bottom, and he coaxed it with a little snack.
Chu Sheng ate two pieces and hid the remaining plum blossom cakes in the cabinet, if another guest comes to the door, his plum blossom cake may not be saved, just in case, it is better to hide it first. Lin Xi looked at Chu Sheng's small movements, and only felt that this child's food protection was mostly due to the problems developed by the previous days being too hard, and he couldn't change it for a while.
There are only two people in the family, and there is no Spring Festival Gala now, the two chatted for a while, Lin Xi was sleepy, and just when Lin Xi was about to fall asleep, the system appeared again: "Lin Xi, Happy New Year." Lin Xi suddenly woke up and asked, "Why did you appear again?" "Because this is your first important festival in this world, the system provides you with a chance to draw a lottery, good luck!" Lin Xi was a little happier. There was a big turntable on the screen, Lin Xi just wanted to reach out and click, but suddenly thought of something, retracted his hand again, and asked, "You won't give me a thank you for participating, right?!"
The system replied: "The countdown to the lottery begins, 5, 4, 3 、......", Lin Xi didn't dare to slack off, quickly clicked, the turntable rotated rapidly, and when it stopped, four big words popped up on the screen: fresh gift package.
opened the gift package, Lin Xi was happy. It was full of ingredients, a dozen catties of pork, two catties of beef, two packets of dried shrimp, ten packets of vegetables and a large bag of flour. Lin Xi has been dealing with the system for so long, and for the first time, he feels that the system is really good. After accepting Lin Xi's thanks, the system immediately threw out a sentence: "In fact, the best prize in this lottery is a bicycle." Lin Xi's smile instantly froze on his face, and after speaking, the system automatically shut down. Lin Xi exhaled slowly, feeling that there was no need to find a bad time for the New Year, so don't worry about the system.
Two days later, Lin Xi was making radish balls, and Tang Shu came over with a bag of sweet potato vermicelli, which Liu Chunyan brought from her parents' house when she returned to her parents' house and specially left them for Lin Xi. Liu Chunyan specially reminded Tang Shu and asked him to come back after sending his things. When the little guy went out, he promised to be good, but when he smelled the aroma of fried radish balls, he couldn't walk. Lin Xi let him taste it, and he sat aside and waited for the meatballs to come out of the pot. Chu Sheng leaned into his ear and suppressed his voice and said, "You came to eat again, I gave you so many snacks last time, why did you still come to eat my food." These words just poked Tang Shu's sore spot, and he couldn't help complaining: "I didn't catch a bite of those dim sum, my mother took them back to my parents' house and honored my grandma and grandfather." When Chu Sheng heard this, he felt a little more comfortable, it turned out that you didn't eat it, you deserved it.
Tang Shu ate more than a dozen hot balls before he was ready to get up and leave. Chu Sheng looked at his oily mouth and said, "Actually, this is very convenient to do, just take some turnips, you have radishes at home, and let your mother make them for you when you go back." Under Chu Sheng's foolishness, the stupid Tang Shu asked Liu Chunyan to make radish balls for him as soon as he went home. How could Liu Chunyan be willing to use so much oil to make croquettes, the oil at home was all calculated and used, according to this usage, the days after that would not be over? Thinking that her son was greedy at other people's homes and embarrassed herself, Liu Chunyan was so angry that she slapped her son twice on the buttocks.